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branch   (TTS Sound)

The noun branch has 6 senses

• branch, subdivision, arm -- (a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages")


• branch -- (a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant)


• branch, leg, ramification -- (a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches")


• outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset -- (a natural consequence of development)


• branch -- (a stream or river connected to a larger one)


• arm, branch, limb -- (any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer")

The verb branch has 2 senses

• ramify, branch -- (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large")


• branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate -- (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks")